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“Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara”
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“I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.”
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“Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.”
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“Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.174, U of Nebraska Press
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“Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?”
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“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
Source : "Achtung! Vorurteile". Book by Peter Ustinov, February 10, 2003.
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“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”
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“My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.”